A Fall Retreat for Changemakers

Join us for 2 and 1/2 inspiring days to develop or renew your vision and purpose. This will be an experience of recharging your body-mind-spirit, while meeting, collaborating and establishing connections with other changemakers in the wisdom field.

November 3rd - 5th, 2017

Connect, Play, and Learn with Us!

When people connect genuinely and are given the space to see and hear one another, the most surprising and magical outcomes unfold.

Join us in on the beautiful Big Island of Hawaii for a retreat of wisdom changemakers.

Step out of the busy world of constant activity.

Connect more fully with yourself and nature.

Listen deeply to what is emerging for you in life and work as you move forward.

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”- Alice Walker

This Gathering is for You

Whether you are from the corporate world, non-profit community, education, or work independently, join us for 3 days in Hawaii for contemplative practices, great conversations, hiking, paddle boarding, swimming, and a chance to rest and recharge in a community of fellow changemakers.

If you work to create a better world and have always wanted to connect deeply with others who are doing the same… If you sometimes feel burnout and overwhelmed with modern life, and need time to renew refresh your resolve...

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.” - Pema Chödrön

The Location

We will use the majestic Big Island of Hawaii as the backdrop for our conversations, with excursions and outdoor activities to better understand ourselves, the world we live in, and others from around the globe.

Should I Go?

If you work to create a better world and have always wanted to connect deeply with others who are doing the same…

If you sometimes feel burnout and overwhelmed with modern life, and need time to renew refresh your resolve...

Join us to:

Develop or renew your vision as a changemaker

Clarify and define your purpose

Recharge and refresh your body, mind and spirit for the journey ahead

You can expect to:

Recharge in beautiful Hawaii for three days

Meet and establish connections with other changemakers in the wisdom field

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”- Henry David Thoreau

The Facilitators

Soren Gordhamer

Founder, Wisdom 2.0

Michelle Gale

Mindfulness Educator, Author, Executive Coach

Rich Fernandez

CEO, Search Inside Yourself

Schedule

Friday

7:00am - 7:15am:Hawaiian Blessing

7:30am - 8:30am:Wake-Up Yoga

8:30am - 10:00am:Breakfast

10:00am to 12:30pmLanding, Arriving, and Coming Together.
Defining who are we as a community -- what each of us come to the retreat with and what are intentions are for our time together.

12:30pm - 2:00pm:Lunch

4:00pm to 6:00pm:Life as Changemakers.
How do we clarify and define what each of us do - are we aligned with our deeper purpose? What are the areas calling our attention and how do we attend to them without burning out?

6:00pm - 8:00pm:The Story of Your Life.
Come together for an intimate dinner to connect with others through better understanding each of our paths that brought us to where we are.

Saturday

7:30am - 8:30am:Wake-Up Yoga

8:30am - 10:00am:Breakfast

10:00am to 12:30pm:Community Breakouts.
We will break into small groups based on our particular interests, to dive more deeply into the topics we are most passionate about supporting in the world.

12:30pm - 2:00pm:Lunch

4:00pm to 6:00pm:Harnessing Group Wisdom.
We will tap into the group’s wisdom to find support and guidance on how each of us wants to enter the next chapter of our life. Harnessing the intelligence of those present, we will support one another in each of our live’s as changemaker, with each person getting a chance to share their emerging calling.

6:00pm - 8:00pm:Dinner

Sunday

7:30am - 8:30am:Wake-Up Yoga

8:30am - 10:00am:Breakfast

10:00am to 12:30pm:Closing Session

“When your mind calms, there’s room to hear more subtle things - that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly."- Steve Jobs

Our Venue

Wisdom 2.0: The Intersect will be held on the Kohala Coast at the beautiful Fairmont Orchid hotel on the Big Island. An ideal location to enjoy natural surroundings while diving more deeply into conversations about our greater purposes in the world, and the intersects that exist in all of our efforts.

Most of the earth's climate zones are represented on the Big Island, from arid coastal and desert areas, to lush old-growth rainforests and alpine mountain slopes, presenting a wondrous diversity of landscape and experience.

The Big Island of Hawaii has long been known as the healing island. According to Hawaiian legends, Hawaii's Big Island is the home of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire. The spirit of Pele has a way of cutting through blockages and bringing to light innermost yearnings.

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”- Albert Camus

Questions & Answers

What is the cost?
$2,000 Early Bird
$2,500 Regular

For scholarship inquiries, please fill out the Scholarship application here.

What does the conference registration cover?
Entrance to this unique event, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the hotel Friday, Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.

What does it not include?
Travel, including airfare, and hotel room nights. You will be sent an email after you register with the choice of discounted room nights. You can select from a number of different room options that best serves you. If you want to share a room, we can help you connect with other attendees who also want to do so. Room rates begin at $219.

Which hotel can I stay at?Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island. We have a discounted hotel block at the hotel. Please visit this link here. Please contact hayley@wisdom2conference.com if you're interested in a room share.

Will you have scholarships?
Yes, we plan to have a limited amount of partial scholarships. Please fill out the Scholarship application here.

Who will I meet?
Last year, we had broad range of people from Twitter and Facebook to the Hawn Foundation to various finance professionals, consultants, non-profits, and education.

Register!

Soren Gordhamer

Michelle Gale

Mindfulness Educator, Author, Executive Coach

Michelle Gale, MA, is a mindfulness teacher and former head of learning and leadership development for Twitter who teaches parents to better connect with their kids by first connecting with themselves. She works in schools, communities, and corporations and is the author of the new book “Mindful Parenting in a Messy World.”

In addition to her board work with the Holistic Life Foundation she is currently an advisor to the Mindful Schools, Wisdom 2.0 and Tilt365. Michelle is also a Strategic Partner with The Trium Group and WisdomLabs.

Michelle received her M.A in Psychology from Meridian University and her undergraduate degree from Florida State University where she studied Child Development. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two sons, who are by far her greatest life teachers.

Rich Fernandez

CEO, Search Inside Yourself

Rich Fernandez is CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization developed at Google that now offers mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs to communities and organizations around the world. He is also the co-founder of Wisdom Labs, an organization that brings the science of mindfulness, resilience and thriving into organizations.

Rich formerly served as the director of executive development at Google, and prior to that was head of learning and organization development at eBay. Rich also has a decade of experience as a learning and leadership development executive in the financial services sector – at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America.
Rich’s leadership brings together the best of mindfulness training and scientific research to create programs that benefit lives at work and at home.

A trained psychologist, Rich received his PhD from Columbia University with a focus on organizational psychology. He is an author and frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, a neuroscience enthusiast, and a long-time mindfulness practitioner and teacher

Wisdom 2.0 The Intersect

Wisdom 2.0 addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the world.

Through our series of conferences, meet-ups, and workshops, Wisdom 2.0 strives to bring this conversation to the world in an accessible, innovative, and inclusive way.